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After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

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Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

The James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have captured Neptune’s auroras for the first time, revealing the planet’s ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

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The new initiative will help students in rural areas learn more about astronomy. Can it inspire the next generation of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope unveiled a stunning new image from the farthest reaches of space. This groundbreaking image ...

With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...